Changes mean 42% of campuses achieved adequate progress
Six schools have successfully appealed their No Child Left Behind status, raising the final total of schools that made “adequate yearly progress” to 42 percent.
The following schools’ AYP status changed from “not met” to “met”: Hanalei Elementary, Pearl Harbor Kai Elementary, Kalani High and Waialua Elementary.
Kualapu’u Elementary (charter) [...]

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The state Board of Education last night voted to extend summer vacation for public school students by two weeks.
The change from a seven- to a nine-week summer break means shorter winter and spring breaks, however. Meeting last night on Kaua’i, the board shortened the winter break from three to two weeks and cut the two-week [...]

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Changes expected to isles’ school year
A school board committee voted unanimously in June to recommend the proposed calendar to the full board, which meets today at 7 p.m. at Hanalei Elementary School
Two years after being adopted, Hawaii’s unified public school calendar is expected to be changed tonight.
The state Board of Education will meet on Kauai [...]

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Heavy rains and flood conditions have forced the closure of  Hanalei Elementary.

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Freelance artist Curtis Cabral’s first Ching Young Village Shopping Center mural was 4-foot by 80-foot. “I did it with spray paint,” said the 14-year North Shore resident.
“I used to hire some of the kids from Hanalei Gourmet to help me with my murals,” said Cabral. “I’d tell these transient hippies, ‘Don’t you want to aspire [...]

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Money To Replace Unsafe Playground Equipment
Pierce Brosnan and his wife, Keely, have donated $100,000 to help replace an unsafe playground at an elementary school on Kauai, where they own a home.
The money was donated to Hawaii 3R’s (Repair, Remodel and Restore Hawaii’s public schools), a nonprofit organization that kicked in $47,800 for the project at [...]

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